How To Increase Your Energy (Part 2)

13. Develop A Daily Exercise Lifestyle
Develop a lifestyle including daily exercise. If your body is sedentary, it must work much harder. Without regular exercise, your heart and lungs are less efficient, which means poor circulation restricts the amount of needed oxygen sent to your body tissues. Not only does your body burn fewer calories, adding pounds, you also lose energy. Exercise reverses this cycle—especially aerobic exercise such as fast walking, jogging, or an exercise class. The idea is to make exercise part of your lifestyle—part of your daily life.

14. Avoid Energy Vampires
Negative people and those with hyper personalities can literally drain your energy. You might feel there is no way to avoid such people in your life. But it's your life and you have the right to spend your time as you desire. You either spend time or waste it. Spending time means you use it in positive ways that serve you. Wasting time means just that—spending it with people you don't want to see, or doing busy work that serves no purpose. Remember, birds of feather flock together. If you want to be happy, successful and filled with energy, surround yourself with happy, successful, high-energy people.

15. Make Major Dietary-Lifestyle Changes
An excess of foods containing sugar and refined white flour will eventually rob you of your health and energy. Replace red meat with fish, chicken and turkey, and only buy meats that are hormone free and contain no nitrates. Both are believed to cause cancer. Eat more vegetables, fruits and 100-percent whole-grain bread, cereal and pasta products. And it goes without saying that you will be wise to stop smoking and eliminate most alcohol.

16. Start Your Day With Sex
Consider starting your day with sex. Instead of waiting until you are tired at night, what about early morning sex to get your day off to an energized start? Regardless of when you make love, the idea is to always make time for your lover, even if it means dropping some responsibilities, reordering priorities, or hiring someone else to do some of your chores. Sexual frustration distracts you and distractions drain energy.

17. Investigate Food Allergies
Not only are food allergies responsible for weight gain and the inability to lose weight, they can also rob you of energy. A medical test is the best way to find out if you fit into this category, but the "Coco-Pulse Test" is a way to self-check your own response to food. If you have a dramatic rise in heartbeat following food ingestion, it is likely that it is caused by food sensitivity. You need to be familiar with your normal pulse, and how to take it.

First thing in the morning, count your pulse for six seconds and then multiply by ten. This is your resting pulse. Then check your pulse 30 and 60 minutes after the meal. If it is 20 beats or higher than normal, you may be having an allergic reaction to what you ate. Begin keeping a record of what you eat and your reactions.

And while you are checking your general health for energy robbers, there are three very common conditions that top the list. 1) Thyroid imbalance, 2) Candida—the yeast condition, and 3) Hypoglycemia—low-blood sugar. Fatigue is a common symptom of all three.

18. Consider Your Vitamin Intake
There are a number of nutrient problems that can rob you of energy, but one of the most common is not enough of the B vitamins, which are absolutely essential for optimum energy. Cooking and food processing destroy B vitamins and stress rapidly uses them up. So consider daily supplementing of the entire B complex. It may also serve you take B15, which is used by many athletes. It is sold in health food stores, but be sure to get pure DMG.

Some studies have shown that megadoses of vitamin C help prevent exhaustion. Take Ester-C to avoid stomach irritation. Tiredness can also result from a lack of the essential minerals, and calcium has been shown to increase stamina. Zinc is also involved in muscle performance and resistance to fatigue. Again, your doctor can offer dosage advice, or your health-food store can provide reading materials for recommendations.

19. Fear-Based Emotions Drain Energy
Energy is drained by fear-based emotions such as anger, hate, guilt, jealousy, repression, greed, envy, insecurity, resentment, blame and the list goes on and on. The fears can be resolved through therapy or human-potential awareness. They won't go away until you face them and act.

20. Lose Weight
Lose weight if necessary to bring yourself into physical balance and restore your energy level.

21. Cut Down or Cut Out TV
Excess TV viewing robs you of energy in numerous ways, the least being eyestrain, which generates fatigue. Instead of observing life on the tube, get up, get out, and get involved in life.

22. Deal With Compulsive Thoughts
Compulsive thoughts can be very subtle energy robbers. If you're bothered by fearful or compulsive thoughts, and you can't put them out of your mind, write them down. Organize them into clear statements. Then organize a plan to deal with each one. If the problem is real, there is a real solution, which you are capable of finding.

If the thoughts relate to ungrounded fears, you may want to explore the concept of thought stopping. Every thought programs your subconscious mind. Positive begets positive, negative begets negative. So always notice compulsive thoughts immediately and say these words to yourself, "Success Opportunity." Then replace the negative thought with a positive one. As an example, if you catch yourself thinking, "I'll never get ahead with all these bills and responsibilities." Stop, and silently in your mind, say, "Success Opportunity." Then say to yourself, "Every day I move a little closer to financial independence." Next visualize yourself having what you want as if you already had it. This technique assures positive instead of negative subconscious programming. The positive thinking alone will give you more energy.

23. Balance the Four Kinds of Energy
There are four different kinds of energy: mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. A balance is needed between the four. Lack of balance in one area can rob you of energy in the other three. You know there is a great difference between being physically tired and being mentally tired. You also know that being emotionally drained is an altogether different experience. You may experience the importance of spiritual energy as it relates to your purpose in life. Contemplate each of these four areas to see if you are in balance. And if not, what can you do to attain a balance? Answers to life's problems are not difficult when you stop hiding from the questions.

24. Use self-hypnosis.
Daily use of self-change hypnosis mind programming will support your goal of increased physical energy.